Who’s to say his replacement won’t be worse? Some of those mentioned as replacements are more hardline than Putin.
On that you’re correct. There’s always someone worse in the wings.
He has named his successor while he is under the knife and, presumably, if he has an ‘accident’ during the surgery, that guy will take over at least until the long knives come out.
Except that FSB guy is the one who pushed the whole ‘Nazi’ narrative about Ukraine on Pootie in the first place ... he’s even more hard line than Pootie.
“Who’s to say his replacement won’t be worse? Some of those mentioned as replacements are more hardline than Putin.”
But, really, it would not be up to him in the final event. The guy who actually has his finger on the button has the final say, regardless who gives the order to launch.
Risky, in any event.
“Who’s to say his replacement won’t be worse?”
The shallow thinkers can’t think that deeply.